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October 2008

Are any of you hookers dressing up for Halloween?

October 31, 2008

Anyone come across some fun & cheap costume ideas? (and yeah, hooker is my new favorite word to call people….except those who actually ARE hookers. not sure what i call them.) And don’t say you’re going as Sarah Palin or Obama as we all know there will be 1,000,00,00,000 + of those around this season. [...]

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Happy Halloween! Don’t be scurred by this week’s carnivals.

October 31, 2008

For some weird reason, all of the carnivals i participated in this week had a theme featured around scary financial stuff?….hmmmm, i wonder why ;) All i know is that it’s HALLOWEEN baby and it’s time to party! Check these out once you’re back and recovered: Carnival of Personal Finance “Financial Armageddon” ed. hosted by [...]

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I don’t fall for any of these cockamamy "tipping tricks"… do i?

October 30, 2008

I’ve hinted about some of these before, but i guess i’m not done w/ it yet ;) I can’t help it really, anything having to do with tipping or splitting the check gets my blood pumping. It’s one of those things we’ll forever be debating in the frugal playground of ours. So I dedicate today’s [...]

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Wedding Pics Update: It’s on Like Donkey Kong! (F-Face)

October 29, 2008

That’s right my friends, Mr. Nice Guy has left the building! It’s been 3 weeks since F-Face (aka our wedding photographer) last contacted us, and we’ve decided to take action now. For all the new folds reading, you can click here, here, here, or here for an update of your choice….although, sadly, it amounts to [...]

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Remember the "Dollar a Day" challenge? Well, i’m tweaking it.

October 28, 2008

The Dollar a Day challenge was all about dropping a dollar in my cup every work day (i stole the idea from Counting My Pennies), thus easily saving a few hundred each year. I initially rocked it out, getting up to the early $100′s, but sadly i have tuckerd out…You know that site failblog.org? Well, [...]

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Never let the marketers win – Send in those rebate forms!

October 27, 2008

Yes the forms make you wanna vomit, but the money is YOURS – don’t be tricked out of it! If you’ve purchased a product which guarantees you money back, fill those suckers out and stay on top of it. Those little bastards are meant to look confusing and annoy the piss outta you. But you [...]

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My cell phone broke in half, and then my battery died…

October 24, 2008

How frustrating is that?! Unfortunately i can’t blame anyone but myself here, well i can about the battery just sucking, but it was def. ME who dropped it on the asphalt and cracked it in two. Literally, it broke in half! And not just like the battery falling out or anything, but more like the [...]

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I just made up this "carnival" story. It’s pretty cool, can you tell?

October 24, 2008

One day a group of Twenty Somethings were hungry, and decided to hit up a Festival. When they reached this Festival of Frugality, however, they realized their funds were desperately lacking and knew they’d need a game plan. So, they huddled together, dipped into their bag of Money Hacks, and sorted through their best Personal [...]

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Do you ever feel guilty for using your Emergency Fund?

October 23, 2008

Even when an emergency comes up?! Hopefully none of us have to go through anything TOO crazy, but in life there’s always some issue we’re dealing with – and it usually involves money. So when these issues arise, are you/were you prepared to pull from your Emergency Fund and put the crisis out? That’s the [...]

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Saving 10% of your money is like "paying an extra bill".

October 22, 2008

Yesssir, you got that straight. I can’t remember for the life of me where i stumbled upon this link, but it’s from 2006 and talks about this “extreme saver” who does just that – thinks of saving as just “another bill” to pay. Genius! While i’ve never really thought of it like that, it’s pretty [...]

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